These tobacco companies dedicate large portions of their free cash flow to their dividends. Time has shown that the one certainty in the stock market is uncertainty. Regardless of how experienced you are or how many advanced investing tools you have at your disposal, nobody can reliably predict how stock prices will move. That's the beauty of dividends: They offer investors a chance to earn returns regardless of how a company's stock price performs, and they can be a good income source, too, if you hold eno ...